RE: Should pedophilia be legal?
February 28, 2013 at 5:09 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2013 at 5:40 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(February 28, 2013 at 4:02 pm)Deicide73 Wrote: So I take it you would be the parent in my example. If you think someone against pedophilia is being illogical then so be it.
No. I never said that. The conclusion can be true while the premises and inferences can be false. I'm inclined to agree with you on your conclusion, but your arguments suck.
Take a look at this:
All dogs have fur.
My pet has fur.
Therefore my pet is a dog.
The conclusion is true. My pet is indeed a dog and he has fur. But the inference sucks. What if my pet was a cat? I would have concluded my cat was a dog just because he has fur!
Just because the conclusion is true doesn't mean your argument is good.
Edit: mixed up cat and dog in one sentence. Corrected.
Here's part of the problem with your argument. Appeal to emotion type arguments can be fitted to "prove" anything.
(February 28, 2013 at 10:03 am)50 years ago Wrote: I would like to ask a question to the persons who are trying to rationalize this topic... If you came home from work and found your, lets say 9 or 10 yr. old daughter playing with a black kid would you go, "Oh hi sweetie, I didn't know you had company." Then politely excuses yourself. Go into the kitchen and make them a few sandwiches? Because I'm sure they're gonna be hungry.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
